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Suddenly society felt itself dragged into situations altogether new and anarchic, —situations which it could not affect, but which painfully affected it.

A Dynamic Theory of History (1904) 1918

Ryan Johnson Dana Schutz paints what she calls 'situations.'

A Painter of Odd 'Situations' Gets a Retrospective—at 34 2011

Ms. Schutz doesn't paint from life or photographs; instead, she creates what she calls "situations"—open-ended narratives, parlor game-like challenges how might a woman swim, smoke and cry all at once?

A Painter of Odd 'Situations' Gets a Retrospective—at 34 2011

Certainly the origins of the novel do not lie in "situations" that are rendered as closely as possible to those of "real life."

Realism in Fiction 2008

She gets angry but in situations normal people would get angry in.

The problem of the Childlike Empress at SF Novelists 2010

The smoothness of a light auto in fast shooting or tight situations is hard to beat.

favorite shotgun for trap and upland birds? 2009

But all (ball) Sac (k) aside, the part that pisses me off in situations like this IS the one-sided appraisal of it - where One Side making attacks on a Civilian Population makes it acceptable for retaliatory strikes of the same base and cowardly nature.

Ashamed « A Bird’s Nest 2009

The smoothness of a light auto in fast shooting or tight situations is hard to beat.

favorite shotgun for trap and upland birds? 2009

On the contrary, I believe that the moral sense is dulled in situations such as the Soviet Union, in which the market was replaced by Communist Party corruption.

Economics and Moral Intuition, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

It enables us to examine what it really means to be human, by placing characters in situations that never arise in the world we see around us today.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gareth L. Powell & Aliette de Bodard 2010

Not everyone loved these works—which, when arranged in their stipulated spaces, he called situations—but most of what his detractors said could be answered with a triumphant “That’s the point!”

When Dan Flavin Saw the Light Condé Nast 2023